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Szymanowski Piano Works

Lots of pianists seem to be recording Szymanowski at the moment, but Mikhail Rudy has his own way with this...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1996

Beethoven String Quartets Nos 15 and 16

Hearing this after immersing myself in the Emerson Quartet’s Beethoven cycle, I was struck by how different these two highly...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 13/1997

Haydn Seven Last Words

Of the different versions which Haydn made of his unique devotional sequence of Adagio movements, the purely orchestral one presents...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2001

Bowen Quintet; String Quartet

York Bowen (1884­1961) has been unlucky. He was a prodigy arriving at the Royal Academy at the age of 14...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Dvorák Requiem; Symphony No 8

Dvorák’s wonderful Requiem differs from the major Masses of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi and Brahms in at least one significant...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2010

Schoenberg & R. Strauss Works for Strings

Do you prefer to hear the first chord of Metamorphosen played by five cellos and one double-bass, or by two...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/1999

Fauré Piano Works, Vol. 5

Volume 2 of Pierre-Alain Volondat’s odyssey through Faure’s complete piano music admirably illustrates a journey from early radiance to a...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/1998

Mozart Sacred Works

This is not another recording of Mozart's Requiem. The version here takes the rejection of Mozart's pupil Sussmayr two steps...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1992

Cinema Serenade II - The Golden Age

Decidedly superior easy listening from Itzhak Perlman, immaculately partnered by John Williams and his smooth-as-silk Bostonians. Williams and Angela Morley...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1999

Shostakovich Symphonies

A logical coupling on LP—from Morton Gould's pioneering stereo recording (RCA, 10/68) to Bernard Haitink's early 1980s Decca pairing (subsequently...

Reviewed in issue 10/1994

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